Synopses & Reviews
Now in paperback: the breakthrough eating program that enables menopausal women to replace estrogen naturally.
Women need estrogen, but it's a fact that the hormone diminishes with age and that most women from their forties on won't produce enough to prevent or minimize the short-term symptoms of menopause -- hot flashes, night sweats, unclear thinking -- or to help safeguard their hearts and bones in the long term. There are 40 million menopausal women in America who face the frightening reality that traditional hormone replacement therapy, which restores estrogen through pills, often causes distressing symptoms and appears to require long use in order to secure long-term benefits. But with long-term use seems to come the increased risk of breast cancer.
The exciting news Nina Shandler discovered is that estrogen occurs naturally in certain foods, primarily soy and flaxseed, which can be used as ingredients in every kind of recipe imaginable, from breakfast bars to soups, main courses, and desserts.
Estrogen: The Natural Way shows how you can do a gentle yet effective version of hormone replacement therapy using the kitchen instead of the drugstore.
Synopsis
Women need estrogen, but estrogen levels diminish with age. In the short term, estrogen's departure leaves most women in a frequently overheated, uncomfortable state. In the long term, its exodus places their hearts, bones, and brains in harm's way. And conventional hormone replacement therapy, with its potentially distressing side effects and increased risk of breast cancer, doesn't provide a reassuring rescue. Faced with every menopausal woman's frightening estrogen dilemma, Nina Shandler discovered exciting news: Some foods contain estrogen. She headed straight for the kitchen and created this easy-to-swallow alternative. Part eating program, part cookbook, Estrogen: The Nat-ural Way shows women how to make fast, fun food using nature's estrogenic ingredients. From breakfast bars to soups, from main courses to desserts, Estrogen: The Natural Way provides a gentle yet effective version of estrogen replacement therapy.
About the Author
Nina Shandler has written about diet and health for more than twenty years and has published several cookbooks. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, Michael. They have two daughters.